Yeah, I'm on the fence about this. If a particular skill-set enabled your employment (e.g. being hired on because you speak English), then you better be able to call upon that skill-set readily and competently.

Hoooowever, if you have never lived in another non-English speaking country where you were required to learn the local language (e.g. Portuguese), then it's hard for you to be as sympathetic as you should to those putting forth a valiant effort.

Give them a break and relax. You better for damn sure not make grammatical errors if you're going to criticize somebody's English.

Although, if you like a well intentioned laugh, go to engrish.com and check out some amazing translations on signage across Asia.

Certain areas in South Carolina run a damn close second. I had friends from SC in high school, I swear I only made out about 1 of every 10 words.

A couple of months ago I had to go to Charleston and one of the fastfood joints I stopped in everyone spoke Gullah. I would say it was strange running into a foreign language, but English is the foreign language, and Gullah was developed here.

Being from the professional redneck/coonass area of Louisiana, saying that I am bilingual would not be a stretch. All that being said, I've been in some areas of eastern Kentucky where I had trouble understanding what they were saying.

A couple of months ago I had to go to Charleston and one of the fastfood joints I stopped in everyone spoke Gullah. I would say it was strange running into a foreign language, but English is the foreign language, and Gullah was developed here.

A couple of months ago I had to go to Charleston and one of the fastfood joints I stopped in everyone spoke Gullah. I would say it was strange running into a foreign language, but English is the foreign language, and Gullah was developed here.